supported by grants from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(KYCXJC2022003);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070243);the Outstanding Young Teacher of the QingLan Project of Jiangsu Province.Y.V.d.P.acknowledges funding from the European Research Council(ERC)under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program(833522);from Ghent University(Methusalem funding,BOF.MET.2021.0005.01).
MicroTom has a short growth cycle and high transformation efficiency,and is a prospective model plant for studying organ development,metabolism,and plant–microbe interactions.Here,with a newly assembled reference gen...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971687 and 32002007);the Anhui Province Key Research and Development Program(202004a06020008);the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(2008085QC127);the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Provincial Department of Education(KJ2019A0186).
Jujube witches’broom(JWB)phytoplasmas parasitize the sieve tubes of diseased phloem and cause an excessive proliferation of axillary shoots from dormant lateral buds to favour their transmission.In previous research,...
This work was supported by the Chongqing Technology Innovation and Application Demonstration Project(cstc2021jscxgksbX0016);the Germplasm Creation Research Program of Southwest University.
Tea plant(Camellia sinensis)is an important cash crop with extensive adaptability in the world.However,complex environmental factors force a large variation of tea quality-related components.Caffeine is essential for ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,China[Grant No.32072274 and 31871848].
NAC transcriptional regulators are crucial for tomato ripening.Virus-induced gene silencing(VIGS)of SNAC9(SlNAC19,Gene ID:101248665)affects tomato ripening,and SNAC9 is involved in ethylene and abscisic acid(ABA)metab...
We would like to thank Dr.Micha Wijesingha Ahchige for guiding and giving advice for the CRISPR/Cas9 vector generation and Dr.Mark A.Schoettler and Dr.Ryo Yokohama for the scientific advices and discussions.Also thanks to Dr.Karin Köhl,the greenhouse team of theMax Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology,for transforming and handling the plants.M.B.appreciates the finan-cial support of the International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Plant Sciences(IMPRS-MolPlant).The research fellow-ship granted by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(CNPq-Brazil)to A.N.-N.is gratefully acknowledged.A.R.F.and S.A.acknowledge the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme,project PlantaSYST(SGA-CSA No.739582 under FPA No.664620);the BG05M2OP001-1.003-001-C01 project;financed by the European Regional Devel-opment Fund through the Bulgarian’Science and Education for Smart Growth’Operational Programme.S.A.acknowledges the EU Horizon 2020,call HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-01,project NatGenCrop(grant agreement No.101087091).
In recent years,multiple advances have been made in understanding the photosynthetic machinery in model organisms.Knowledge transfer to horticultural important fruit crops is challenging and time-consuming due to rest...
supported by grants from the National Key Research&Development Plan(2022YFD1200502;2021YFD1200201);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31972426;31991182);the Wuhan Biological Breeding Major Project(2022021302024852);the Key Project of Hubei Hongshan Laboratory(2021hszd007);the Hubei Key Research&Development Plan(2022BBA0062;2022BBA0066);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2662022YLPY001)and the International Cooperation Promotion Plan of Shihezi University(GJHZ202104)..
Malic acid(MA)is an important flavor acid in fruits and acts as a mediator in a series of metabolic pathways.It is important to understand the factors affecting MA metabolism for fruit flavor improvement and to unders...
Plants must adapt with increasing speed to global warming to maintain their fitness.One rapid adaptation mechanism is epigenetic memory,which may provide organisms sufficient time to adapt to climate change.We studied...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31930095,32172527);the Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System(CARS-26).
Carotenoids directly influence citrus fruit color and nutritional value,which is critical to consumer acceptance.Elucidating the potential molecular mechanism underlying carotenoid metabolism is of great importance fo...
supported by the research projects PID2021-126472OB-I00 and RTI2018-094650-J-100 of the Ministry of Science and Innovation,the Government of Spain.Carmen VegaÁlvarez acknowledges a PFI fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation;Marta Francisco acknowledges the Ramón y Cajal Research Program(RYC2019-027834-I)through the MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and“ESF Investing in your future”.Thomas Roitschwould like to acknowledge funding by the Ministry of Education,Youth and Sports of Czech Republic within the National Sustainability Programme I(NPU I),grant number LO1415.
Alterations in plant metabolism play a key role in the complex plant-pathogen interactions.However,there is still a lack of knowledge about the connection between changes in primary and specialized metabolism and the ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31770360,32070358);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFD1000100).
Heterophylly is regard as an important adaptive mechanism in response to different environments within plants.However,the genetic mechanisms responsible for heterophylly in woody plants are still poorly understood.Her...